Re: [Ebib-users] Discussion of issues relating to Ebib

[Joost K. <joo...@fa...>]

Hi Phil,

My condolances for your loss. And of course a late reply won't keep me
from looking into your problem. It seems there was a bug in the function
`ebib--get-db-from-filename` that for some reason has remained
undetected for quite some time... It should be fixed now in the latest
commit (53919c1), which should appear on Melpa in a few hours.

If you still run into trouble, let me know and I'll take another look.

Regards,

Joost




On Tue, Jul 21 2015, Phil and Marlene Carter <pan...@bi...> wrote:
> Hi Joost,
>
> Sorry I have been slow in replying. We had a death in the family.
>
> For reasons which I don't understand my reply to your last email could not be delivered, so I am starting a fresh email. 
>
> Here are the results of the commands:
>
> *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
> ELISP> (ebib--get-db-from-filename (cl-second (buffer-local-value 'ebib--multiline-info (car ebib--multiline-buffer-list))))
> nil
> ELISP> (ebib-db-get-filename ebib--cur-db)
> "~/Documents/Phil/misc/books-read.bib"
> ELISP> (expand-file-name (ebib-db-get-filename ebib--cur-db))
> "/Users/carters/Documents/Phil/misc/books-read.bib"
> ELISP> (expand-file-name (cl-second (buffer-local-value 'ebib--multiline-info (car ebib--multiline-buffer-list))))
> "/Users/carters/Documents/Phil/misc/books-read.bib"
> ELISP>
>
> The first command did in fact return "nil". The other commands return the correct database.
>
> Thanks again for your help. It worries me that I have done something fundamentally wrong, but I can't think what it might be.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phil Carter
>
> Hi Phil,
>
> Well, that's exactly the value I'd expect (assuming that the file is
> correct). Unfortunately, that doesn't make it easier figuring out what's
> going wrong...
>
> Could you try a few things and report the results? Start a fresh
> instance of Ebib (please quit Ebib first if it's already running), open
> the relevant file and then edit an annote field. While the annote buffer
> is open, do the following:
>
> M-x ielm RET
>
> This will start an interactive Elisp session. Then type (copy & paste):
>
> (ebib--get-db-from-filename (cl-second (buffer-local-value 'ebib--multiline-info (car ebib--multiline-buffer-list))))
>
> This should return the database containing the entry whose annote field
> you're editing. If there are a lot of entries in it, it may take a while
> for Emacs to display the value. I suspect it returns `nil`, however,
> which is not correct. If that is the case, please enter the following at
> the IELM prompt:
>
> (ebib-db-get-filename ebib--cur-db)
>
> then:
>
> (expand-file-name (ebib-db-get-filename ebib--cur-db))
>
> and:
>
> (expand-file-name (cl-second (buffer-local-value 'ebib--multiline-info (car ebib--multiline-buffer-list))))
>
> The last two results should be identical, but it seems that for some
> reason, they are not.
>
> Best,
>
> Joost
>
>
>
>
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